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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black PROGRESSIVE URBAN ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT Black Radio “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” URBAN PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO ALTERNATIVE ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX OUR COMMON GROUND is talk radio that examines our world and nation, the socio-economic condition of our community and collective interests in the context race in HOPE and with COURAGE. XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX A symposium of ideas and national town hall meeting.XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX I'll Be Listening for YOU !

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Politics Another Perspective with Dr. Wilmer Leon, Host, "Inside the Issues" UrbanView XM Radio Politics Another Perspective: Analysis of Race, War, Ethics and the American Political Landscape in the Age of Obama is a collection of Op Ed's written by Wilmer J. Leon, III, Ph.D. As a collection, these writings provide cutting edge analysis of the ...…

"The American Great Political Debacle of 2017" Guest: Chauncey Devega Political essayist, Cultural critic, Educator, and host of the podcast known as "The Chauncey DeVega Show". .BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcom ...…

"The Metrics of Black Wealth" Guest: Dr. William A. (“Sandy”) Darity, Jr., Ph.D. Dr. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy,African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Duke Consortium on Social Equity at Duke University. WE can't save, educate or job income ourselves out of the economic and f ...…

'Imagining Ourselves as Agentic: The Great Fallacy" Dr. Curry always brings opportunities FOR "transformative discourse". He will be joining us once again. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #T ...…

A critical lens on the political landscape of America with Pascal Robert Guest: Pascal Robert, Editor, The Thought Merchant and Contributor, The Black Agenda Report This week we discuss the political future of Black Americans in the era of a imperialist Executive and Legislative government. The critical question is not how we react to the fasci ...…

"In Coversation with Bruce A. Dixon" Co- Founder and Managing Editor, The Black Agenda Report Chair, GA Green Party .Bruce Dixon is the GA State Chairman of the Green Party, a Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode OCG on the Web: http://our ...…

OUR COMMON GROUND returns LIVE tonight. Part II, Season 2016 on November 12, 2016. Guest: Dr. James L. Taylor USF and UC Berkeley Black Studies Department Chair, Professor and Author, “Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama” There is critical work before us, reconstitution and reformatting. We must unravel oursel ...…

" A Police State: Changing the Body of Law" 1. Indefinite military detentions of U.S. citizens 2. Targeting U.S. citizens for killing 3. Arresting witnesses for recording police actions Policymakers are not discussing or debating these issues in Congress, the State House or City Council. The consequences for what it means to be a Black American ...…

"A Promise to Pay: Political Debt" OCG Unfiltered Interlocutor, Pascal Robert joins us. The 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia is over. It was the greatest parade of marketing propaganda we have seen in our lifetime. Hillary proclaimed, “Your cause is my cause,”. But dissatisfied delegates in the hall, the Bernie people saw her rhetoric ...…

OPEN MIC Saturday Night Some of our favorite commentators will stop by to brief us on important issues and ignite the phones. Call In Line: 347-838-9852 Once a month, we turn the mic over to you. It is clear that they will do whatever we allow. Justice is now whatever they can justify. Topics on Tap for tonight: << Dallas police killing does no ...…

What is Freedom ? We have been on the road, rampage and struggle for FREEDOM for over 40 years. We have rebelled, resisted, sung, marched and demanded. More Black people in prison; killed and brutalized by police; living under oppressive captialism and abandoned by corrupted politics.We watch Black men and women bodies fall in the street and in ...…

OCG SPECIAL :: 40M Souls : Marganilized, Traumatized, Terrorized and Muderered Joining us: Yvette Carnell of BreakingBrown.com, Dr. James L. Taylor, USF and UC Berkeley, Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Texas A&M University We declare our collective wounds and injuries in the wake of the killing of more than 1, 000 American citizens by police. This week we ...…

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Talking to our Children and Ourselves The Execution of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile The Dallas Aftermath and Lingering Questions How Much Death Do we have to endure ? Guest: Professor Miriam "Dutchess" Harris ;; Professor and Chair of American Studies :: Co-Author, "Black Lives Matter" Duchess Harris is an African Americ ...…

"Wilmington on Fire" with the Filmmaker, Christopher Everett Tonight we talk again with Christopher Everett about his film as it tours the nation. The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port cit ...…

" Political Madness: Where da' Revolution ?" ALFO, of the ALFO Show, TrutWorks Network, Takes the Mic ALFO ( Duane Alford) sits in for Janice and broadcasts LIVE from Chicago, IL. He is a student of commonsense. Retired and a news junkie. He started his broadcasting career at USTalk Network as one of four hosts of "The Front Page" . ALFO has be ...…

April ReWind<> OPEN MIC #TalkthatMatters BROADCASTING BRAVE BOLD & BLACK This month we covered a lot of important issues, including the death of Check out the topic/issues we will have up, the ones we covered and add those you want included below in the form below or via a link. HERE Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852 email: OCGinfo@ourcommong ...…

"Hands Off Our Children: 300 Strong: Report from Field" Dr. Ruby Sales ED of SpiritHouse Project Dr. Sales returns to provide a report of this historice event discussed in early March. On March 18, 2016 Washington D.C., SpiritHouse Project led the first national public hearing of the 1000 black victims of state-sanctioned murders. Delivering co ...…

"Truthtelling About the War on Drugs and Politics" OUR GUEST: Matthew Fogg, Former Former Chief Deputy U. S. Marshall and Special DEA Agent Whistleblower He was told by the DEA that there should be no drug enforcement in rich White areas. And he told. After leaving the force, Fogg spent his retirement advocating for greater protections for offi ...…

"#FeelingtheBern" Guest: Nina Turner, Former OH Senator, Bernie Sanders for President Spokesperson She is a national spokesperson and surrogate in the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. She is nationally known as a voice for voting rights, for workers' rights and for marginalized people. She welcom her us once again on OUR COMMON GROUND. For ...…

"FlashBLACK: AmeriKKKa Making It Clear Again" OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT Co-Hosting, The Thought Merchant, Pascal Robert of Black Agenda Report BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK FLASHBlack >>>In the midst of the most vitriolic political theater seen in our lifetime, we are looking up from the bottom of the well in a fog of schizophrenic confusion, o ...…

STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016 Ruby N. Sales, Founder/Executive Director, The Spirit House Project STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016 Join a delegation of 300 black women standing in a day of action for black children! Via Ruby Sales In schools and in the street, very powerful people profile, bully, criminalize, manh ...…

Dr. Lester K. Spence, Author, "KNOCKING the HUSTLE: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics” Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852 Neoliberalism is the greatest political sleight of our time. Knocking the Hustle makes it plain. Drawing from political e ...…

"Scalia Found Dead" Reformat of tonight's broadcast . . . In our 1st Page tonight, Pascal Robert, the “Thought Merchant” of BAR and Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown.org Joins us to talk about whtat theis means for the Obama Administration and the Race for the White House. "Bey and the Fishnet Revolution: Giving the People What they Want" " . . ...…

"Fixing OUR Politics: Bakerizing" Black elected officials are failing us. Federal, state and local public policy either eliminates us or suffocates us. We must fix our politics. Join us in exploring this crisis. Educate, agitate and organize.We must 'Bakerize'. Black citizens continue to suffer the absence of a strategic effective political inf ...…

"Flint: Crimes Against Citizens" LIVE and Call-In The question of who knew what and when is rendered impotent. The Governor, Municipal Administrator, state health officials and the EPA. THEY ALL KNEW ONE YEAR AGO. "Is it extreme to posit that local and state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed the poisoning of te ...…

"While We Slept: 1,126 Black Bodies in 2015" Guest Co-Host, Dr. Ruby Sales, Founder and Director, The SpiritHouse Project "All I wanted was someone to be held accountable,’ says Tamir Rice’s mother. ‘But this entire process was a charade." Did you sit it out until the justice system announced that there was a reasonable explanation to the murde ...…

30th ANNUAL OUR COMMON GROUND KWANZAA TEACH-IN Come celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa with serious study of the N’Guzo Saba with us. HABARI GANI? As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African ...…

Debt and Credit Scores: Personal Economic Depression Can you imagine how your life would change if you had good credit? Or had a workable financial plan ? Debt that overloads can cause financial distress and trauma. Life altering disaster which affects your children, partner or marriage. Even your employment. Budgeting Debt reduction Credit rep ...…

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham REBROADCAST "Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAP" A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor Professor Emeritus Vernellia Randall University of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH Learn more about this Broadcast and Professor Randall BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselve ...…

"Racial Coding and Profiling in American Politics" REBROADCAST of August 6, 2011 LIVE DISCUSSION with Dr. Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Saturday, November 14, 2015 10 pm ET Rebroadcast We will be back LIVE and Call - In November 21, 2015. ABOUT Dr. Hutchings Dr. Hutchings is a Professor of Political S ...…

"Trusting Black Women: Building Sustainable Respect" OUR GUEST: Loretta J. Ross, Co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012. She has been Creating a Voice for Reproductive and Black WoMENT JUSTICE over 30 years "The concept of Reproductive Justice began to take shape w ...…

"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children" Our Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar Executive Director, Co-Founder, Co-Chair Dignity in Schools Campaign Racial Justice NOW ! A South Carolina Black female student was brutally attacked, thrown from her seat and tossed across the room by a school police officer even though she had obeyed orders to pu ...…

"Bearing Witness: Igniting OUR Power" Resistance and Rebellion Series Part II Continuing the discussion beyond political empowerment. with Dr. Ruby N. Sales Understanding the new slavery in the context of About Rebellion and Resistance. What history and our ancestors can teach us. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn Mo ...…

In Conversation with Yvette Carnell POWER BLOGGER and THOUGHT-LEADER Blogging politics, social, and cultural issues BreakingBrown.com Breakingbrown.me Editor, YourBlackWorld Included in our discussion are the many urgent issues covered by www.breaking brown.com within our community, we will review three major events. <> The exoneration of offic ...…

"Black men, in particular, have been treated as being disposable, no longer necessary to the economy or to building the country. We label them and their communities as irredeemable and hopelessly violent, . . . it becomes clear that men of all races who are chronically unemployed are more likely to be violent." Dr. Michele Alexander, "Black Liv ...…

OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT LISTEN LIVE and Join the OPEN Chat Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852 Where Friends come to meet with allies. Tonight on OUR COMMON GROUND we open up our lines to hear from you for the full 2 hours. Give us a call and let’s discuss what you believe is the most pressing issues facing our communities. Each Saturday night, ...…

“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine” RESISTANCE and REBELLION Series Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Co-Moderating Tonight on OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss white supremacy as a system of power which is a fundamental undergird and foundation of economic, political and cultural imperialism. Part of our discussion will focus on examining the parall ...…

OUR COMMON GROUND discusses the critical elements of how to move the slogan to the movement throughout the Black community. How and where we participate and input into the strategic plan and agenda. The Black Lives Matter movement was born out of the pain and injustice of Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 and gathered momentum in the wake of the k ...…

"40 Years, $1 Trillion, 45 Million Arrests: The Truth About the War on Us" "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" What began as a flourish of campaign rhetoric in 1968 has grown into a monster. And while nobody claims that the War on Drugs is a success, nobody suggests an alternative. Because to do so is political and profit sui ...…

BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" Featuring Ruby N. Sales who joins us tonight as co-moderator. With you, we will discuss our community's response to a rising and troubling challenge to the agency of Black people as citizens in this country. As we come closer to the term end of the first Afri ...…

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